Antonym: condemn. Similar words: testify, do justice, gratify, just, identify, adjust, just now, just as. Meaning: ['dʒʌstɪfaɪ] v. 1. show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for 2. show to be right by providing justification or proof 3. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning 4. let off the hook 5. adjust the spaces between words.
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91. Our present system is analogue and the requirement for computer system links and data transmission may justify changing to a digital system.
92. As airlines grew, their large cash flows were used to justify huge borrowings for takeovers and expansion.
93. But, in any event, there is no compelling reason to justify section 9.
94. Complicity between the two personae is betrayed by using the reading performed to justify the choice made.
95. Today, though trapping still goes on, it is disappearing because there are not enough wild elephants to justify it.
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96. But the benefit accruing to each individual user would not justify the purchase of such a large and indivisible product.
97. Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy.
98. Except where working conditions were very bad, it was hard to justify replacing humans with robots.
99. Under pain or duress, we do whatever we can to cope with the discomfort and justify its causes.
100. One of the reasons I could justify putting them in there was the D block where I could give them extra help.
101. If its artists were consistently fresh and challenging, it would justify its existence easily.
102. Highways chiefs say there is no evidence to justify action being taken in Lily Road, Litherland.
103. Climbing in the rain makes you feel a lot more clever than it should rationally justify.
104. Even if that had happened, it didn't justify the violence of Steen's attempts to get Jacqui off his back.
105. Bradley and colleagues are well aware of these problems as they seek to justify newborn screening for this untreatable genetic disorder.
106. Options may also be granted at any other time when the Committee considers exceptional circumstances exist which justify the grant of options.
107. I wrote to the Secretary of State, but he has not even begun to justify the Government's action.
108. He claimed Labour had shown desperation tactics by naming four-year-old Matthew to justify a party political broadcast.
109. Pastor Braun was periodically called to Berlin to justify the continued existence of the Institution and its inmates.
110. Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire
111. That would justify the presence of horses on the frieze, since cavalry competitions were a feature of funerals for heroes.
112. It is doubtful, though, that clarity of signal alone would justify the expense of making the mobile-phone network digital.
113. These reasons do not justify the righteous role which they assign to the avenging vigilante.
114. Since the cold war ended, many state intelligence agencies have struggled to justify their existence.
115. But that makes it hard to achieve the critical mass on the school side that would justify changes in curriculum and scheduling.
116. The order to create wealth can never justify permanent damage to the balance of nature.
117. In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
118. Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
119. Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
120. But the analogies which are used to justify the transition are dubious at best.
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